ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 14

This beautiful drawing was done in 1915 by Rudolph Schindler, an architect in Taos, New Mexico. It was part of a proposal for an adobe home...

EDWARD HOPPER'S VERSION OF THE INTERNET

Edward Hopper loved to ride the elevated train through the city at night. As the apartment buildings raced by in the dark, he would catch fl...

THE IMPORTANCE OF A FRAME

There's only one thing that all art has in common: a frame. The frame may be made of metal or wood or it may be purely conceptual, but ...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part thirteen

The illustrator Bernie Fuchs erased this lovely drawing in 1964 1964 was the beginning of an era of bold experimentation in the United Stat...

NOT ALL THE GOLD IN THE VAULT CAN SMILE LIKE THE NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S DAUGHTER

. Sounds like an improvement to me. (Quote in title is a paraphrase from Walt Whitman's poem, A Song for Occupations)

ARTISTS IN LOVE, part twelve

Pierre Bonnard was a part time law student and a part time painter. A man of diverse interests and little focus, he also considered a career...

RECOVERING THE SENSATION OF PERCEPTION

Victor Shklovsky, who was a pretty smart guy, wrote: Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one's wife... and art exists tha...